This is true. And I am glad that the GIMP is there for this reason. I think that it needs some UI work to make it much more friendly to home users (like elements). Professionals, of course, pay for photoshop. In fact, I pay (or right now my company pays) for thousands of dollars worth of software. When I was in college I also actually paid for my software, mostly becasue it was damn cheap with the discount.
This is a great point. I use firefox for all browsing other than testing. I use wings 3d for modeling quite frequently (and I actually use Maya professionally). I use and enjoy apache and PHP. But I can find no use for the gimp. Photoshop is the only game in town.
1.) Mozilla FireFox -- do people still use IE?
2.) WinZip -- although with XP this is less essential
3.) Adobe Photoshop -- this is absolutely essential, but CS is not
4.) Adobe Illustrator
5.) Adobe After Effects...if only I could afford Combustion
6.) Alias Maya--This is my main app, but it takes forever to install, so I install it later
7.) Macromedia Flash MX 2004 -- love hate with this one, but I need it for work
8.) PuTTY
9.) Spybot S&D
10.) Norton AntiVirus
about $5k worth of software all told...my job has a lot of overhead.
This is a straw man arguement. No one is claiming that "western culture" is causing global warming. As you said, not only did other cultures wipe out all the large mammals in the americas, but several of them managed to wipe themselves out by tragically mismanaging their recources. (a lesson worth learning)
People are claiming that pollution is causing global warming. There seems to be a lot of evidence for this, but it could be wrong. But the consequences of taking no action seem severe.
If we decide to make efforts to reduce pollution we lose little, at worst a short term hit on the GDP, which will be made up as the economy adjusts to the new rules. If we decide that the evidence isn't good enough and do nothing--and we are wrong--we could be totally screwed. Inaction could bring a global catastrophe. Action MIGHT avert it, but at the least will make life a little more liveable.
This is something that really bugs me because photoshop and illustrator are still without peer, but adobe refuses to improve them beyond just throwing on some useless new features. Photoshop could pull way ahead again and really make me love adobe again if they added one feature: resolution independant non-destructive filters. They keeping moving towards it but they won't finally just do it. I know they have the tech, they use it in After Effects. Also some real performance improvments would be nice.
Re:Wait... so you're telling me...
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I am sure you know that ridiculing someone else's arguement is not, in itself an effective counter arguement. No one was talking about republicans or democrats. YOU brought that up. Saying that democrats are just as corrupt as republicans is not a response to the arguement that the grandparent made. In fact, your post seems to be dealing with a completely unrelated issue that has NOTHING to do with energy.
Well, this thing is blowing my mind and i just wasted some money testing it. It got a lot of stuff. It it didn't get Puffy AmiYumi or the sounds, but it did get Bei Mir Bist du Shon by Glen Miller and the Andrews Sisters.
I suppose it works by keeping the recording in the database, grabbing a snippet of the song and then using some sort of algorithm to cut out identifying marks and then searching the database for songs that match. Its sort of useless but its a really cool hack. It didn't get the Dvorak I played it. I think it probably needs to have the actual recording in the database. Not magic, but cool nonetheless.
[Enter three huge clunky robots on tracks.]
Betabot: Presenting the president of the network.
Network President: Greetings gentlemen, you already know my Execubots. Executive Alpha, programmed to like things that are seen before.
Alphabot: Hey hey hey.
Network President: Executive Beta, programmed to roll dice to determine the fall schedule.
[Betabot rolls two dice.]
Betabot: More reality shows.
Network President: And Executive Gamma, programmed to underestimate middle America.
Gammabot: It's funny but is it going to get them off their tractors?
Network President: Now, who put this obnoxious dancing robot on my network?
Director: We were about to fire him sir.
Network President: Silence hack! We've been monitoring our Nielsen families carefully and during the 12 seconds Bender was on screen, viewer eyeball focus was up 90%.
Calculon: Sir, children watch this show. Bender's no role model, he's a filth monger!
Network President: At our network, we love filth! Filthy rich that is! Being filthy rich that is! [He laughs. something fizzles towards the Execubots from the president and they all laugh with him.] "Bite my shiny metal ass" could be a catchphrase.
The chip exists, but this site is definetly a parody. Never the less the fact that RFID chips the size of a grain of rice exist today should give us pause. This has been discussed for implantation in paroles, who could be tracked by RFID readers installed in various locations.
Be that as it may the chips that are implanted in pets do work. There is no reason why they couldn't be used in humans. Of course, according to my cat the implantation is extremely painful and you would notice it. Also the chip is easily detected (that's the idea) so real bad guys would have no trouble finding and removing it.
My god, what an intelligent arguement. Very, very good. that is why (and I know you hear this a lot) I am frankly disturbed by your sig. Here is the evidence. I am sorry, but HIV does, in fact cause AIDS.
Your other posts reveal a healthy skepticism towards religion and other dubious claims, but for some reason you buy into this frankly bizarre and irresponsible conspiracy theory...I am doing what you suggested and taking what good you said and leaving the rest, but seriously, I suggest you do more research on AIDS, examine the competing evidence and re-evaluate your conclusion...
I think this is really a language issue. We aren't speaking the same language. When these MBA IT types talk about information systems they aren't talking about hardware or software. They are talking about some abstract business school concept that has something to do (I think) with creating effective systems (in the traditional sense of the word) to manage information in business. Computers and software are just part of that, and these days a large part of that.
So, I'm sure that they basically learn nothing about actual hardware and software in business school beyond Microsoft as the market leader. But to be fair, here are a couple of articles from the kind of stuff that MBAs read on the plane:
If IT execs are really thinking for themselves and doing the research (which, judging from the pace of linux adoption they are) they are making the right choices. But, there a lot of idiots out there and I don't think that there business school is why they don't get it.
Was it worth it? Are these kinds of arms races, devestating to everyone, actually desirable? The soviet union's financial collapse left the remnants in poverty. That nation is a long way from recovering from 75 years of reckless economic policy and the devestating effects of the arms race.
To get back on topic--If the fight for the living room between sony and micrsoft escalates to a real price war that will seriously damage both companies' finances what will be the benefit? I suppose if both companies waste a lot of money on this it will benefit their competitors in other markets. Breaking microsoft's stranglehold on software and sony's domination of consumer electronics can't be bad and might be worth it. On the other hand, if the living room race gets ugly enough the cost of fighting that war could potentially drive a lot of other players out of the set top market (like tivo, rca, etc) leaving the winner of the console war with a new monopoly, which nobody wants...Hmm. Well that was rambling, but it is all worth thinking about.
I think you are wrong about this. I think this could be described as dumping. Microsoft is using their resources to sell product below markt price. I don't think there will be any action because sony has plenty of resources as well and is not likely to let Microsoft price them out.
Another anecdotal thought on this, however--My girlfriend teaches 7th grade. 13 year old boys are probably a huge demographic for consoles. They all love the ps2. I've read a few things they wrote in free writing about how much they think the xbox sucks. Sony has won the marketing war, I think the xbox is always going to be a hard sell.
This is the case at my company. We thought about dropping outlook and ms office for open source options and the users (note, I am not IT, I'm a user too) were INCREDIBLY resistant to the idea. One guy (a project manager) kept calling OpenOffice.org OpenAwful.org. Different pissed people off. Its the same reason you hear the unwashed computer-illiterare masses complain about macs. They hate them because they are different and they don't know how to use them.
Re:Still not a justification for ISS
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Not a justification, no. But it is convenient to have it already there.
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This is true. And I am glad that the GIMP is there for this reason. I think that it needs some UI work to make it much more friendly to home users (like elements). Professionals, of course, pay for photoshop. In fact, I pay (or right now my company pays) for thousands of dollars worth of software. When I was in college I also actually paid for my software, mostly becasue it was damn cheap with the discount.
This is a great point. I use firefox for all browsing other than testing. I use wings 3d for modeling quite frequently (and I actually use Maya professionally). I use and enjoy apache and PHP. But I can find no use for the gimp. Photoshop is the only game in town.
1.) Mozilla FireFox -- do people still use IE?
2.) WinZip -- although with XP this is less essential
3.) Adobe Photoshop -- this is absolutely essential, but CS is not
4.) Adobe Illustrator
5.) Adobe After Effects...if only I could afford Combustion
6.) Alias Maya--This is my main app, but it takes forever to install, so I install it later
7.) Macromedia Flash MX 2004 -- love hate with this one, but I need it for work
8.) PuTTY
9.) Spybot S&D
10.) Norton AntiVirus
about $5k worth of software all told...my job has a lot of overhead.
This is a straw man arguement. No one is claiming that "western culture" is causing global warming. As you said, not only did other cultures wipe out all the large mammals in the americas, but several of them managed to wipe themselves out by tragically mismanaging their recources. (a lesson worth learning)
People are claiming that pollution is causing global warming. There seems to be a lot of evidence for this, but it could be wrong. But the consequences of taking no action seem severe.
If we decide to make efforts to reduce pollution we lose little, at worst a short term hit on the GDP, which will be made up as the economy adjusts to the new rules. If we decide that the evidence isn't good enough and do nothing--and we are wrong--we could be totally screwed. Inaction could bring a global catastrophe. Action MIGHT avert it, but at the least will make life a little more liveable.
This is something that really bugs me because photoshop and illustrator are still without peer, but adobe refuses to improve them beyond just throwing on some useless new features. Photoshop could pull way ahead again and really make me love adobe again if they added one feature: resolution independant non-destructive filters. They keeping moving towards it but they won't finally just do it. I know they have the tech, they use it in After Effects. Also some real performance improvments would be nice.
I am sure you know that ridiculing someone else's arguement is not, in itself an effective counter arguement. No one was talking about republicans or democrats. YOU brought that up. Saying that democrats are just as corrupt as republicans is not a response to the arguement that the grandparent made. In fact, your post seems to be dealing with a completely unrelated issue that has NOTHING to do with energy.
Well, this thing is blowing my mind and i just wasted some money testing it. It got a lot of stuff. It it didn't get Puffy AmiYumi or the sounds, but it did get Bei Mir Bist du Shon by Glen Miller and the Andrews Sisters.
I suppose it works by keeping the recording in the database, grabbing a snippet of the song and then using some sort of algorithm to cut out identifying marks and then searching the database for songs that match. Its sort of useless but its a really cool hack. It didn't get the Dvorak I played it. I think it probably needs to have the actual recording in the database. Not magic, but cool nonetheless.
Director: The network Execubots are coming!
Calculon: Dear God!
[Enter three huge clunky robots on tracks.] Betabot: Presenting the president of the network.
Network President: Greetings gentlemen, you already know my Execubots. Executive Alpha, programmed to like things that are seen before.
Alphabot: Hey hey hey.
Network President: Executive Beta, programmed to roll dice to determine the fall schedule.
[Betabot rolls two dice.]
Betabot: More reality shows.
Network President: And Executive Gamma, programmed to underestimate middle America.
Gammabot: It's funny but is it going to get them off their tractors?
Network President: Now, who put this obnoxious dancing robot on my network?
Director: We were about to fire him sir.
Network President: Silence hack! We've been monitoring our Nielsen families carefully and during the 12 seconds Bender was on screen, viewer eyeball focus was up 90%.
Calculon: Sir, children watch this show. Bender's no role model, he's a filth monger!
Network President: At our network, we love filth! Filthy rich that is! Being filthy rich that is! [He laughs. something fizzles towards the Execubots from the president and they all laugh with him.] "Bite my shiny metal ass" could be a catchphrase.
Alphabot: 80% likely.
Gammabot: It will play in Peoria.
[Betabot rolls his dice.]
Betabot: Gameshows are back.
Mod this down! Don't let the authorities find out. Well...I guess they already have. That is such a good idea and a disturbing one at the same time.
The chip exists, but this site is definetly a parody. Never the less the fact that RFID chips the size of a grain of rice exist today should give us pause. This has been discussed for implantation in paroles, who could be tracked by RFID readers installed in various locations.
Be that as it may the chips that are implanted in pets do work. There is no reason why they couldn't be used in humans. Of course, according to my cat the implantation is extremely painful and you would notice it. Also the chip is easily detected (that's the idea) so real bad guys would have no trouble finding and removing it.
This gibberish is always in spam to fool filters, but it could easily be used to send secure messages.
My god, what an intelligent arguement. Very, very good. that is why (and I know you hear this a lot) I am frankly disturbed by your sig. Here is the evidence. I am sorry, but HIV does, in fact cause AIDS.
Your other posts reveal a healthy skepticism towards religion and other dubious claims, but for some reason you buy into this frankly bizarre and irresponsible conspiracy theory...I am doing what you suggested and taking what good you said and leaving the rest, but seriously, I suggest you do more research on AIDS, examine the competing evidence and re-evaluate your conclusion...
How are they gonna keep you from ripping the DVDs? I think they'll be fine...
Oh its alright.
I think this is really a language issue. We aren't speaking the same language. When these MBA IT types talk about information systems they aren't talking about hardware or software. They are talking about some abstract business school concept that has something to do (I think) with creating effective systems (in the traditional sense of the word) to manage information in business. Computers and software are just part of that, and these days a large part of that.
So, I'm sure that they basically learn nothing about actual hardware and software in business school beyond Microsoft as the market leader. But to be fair, here are a couple of articles from the kind of stuff that MBAs read on the plane:
Business 2.0 says Linux is ready for the desktop
Business week seems to think sco is fighting a losing battle
If IT execs are really thinking for themselves and doing the research (which, judging from the pace of linux adoption they are) they are making the right choices. But, there a lot of idiots out there and I don't think that there business school is why they don't get it.
Orbital power? Wouldn't that be nice? And safer too I think...and use the power to convert water to hydrogen.
Was it worth it? Are these kinds of arms races, devestating to everyone, actually desirable? The soviet union's financial collapse left the remnants in poverty. That nation is a long way from recovering from 75 years of reckless economic policy and the devestating effects of the arms race.
To get back on topic--If the fight for the living room between sony and micrsoft escalates to a real price war that will seriously damage both companies' finances what will be the benefit? I suppose if both companies waste a lot of money on this it will benefit their competitors in other markets. Breaking microsoft's stranglehold on software and sony's domination of consumer electronics can't be bad and might be worth it. On the other hand, if the living room race gets ugly enough the cost of fighting that war could potentially drive a lot of other players out of the set top market (like tivo, rca, etc) leaving the winner of the console war with a new monopoly, which nobody wants...Hmm. Well that was rambling, but it is all worth thinking about.
I think you are wrong about this. I think this could be described as dumping. Microsoft is using their resources to sell product below markt price. I don't think there will be any action because sony has plenty of resources as well and is not likely to let Microsoft price them out.
Another anecdotal thought on this, however--My girlfriend teaches 7th grade. 13 year old boys are probably a huge demographic for consoles. They all love the ps2. I've read a few things they wrote in free writing about how much they think the xbox sucks. Sony has won the marketing war, I think the xbox is always going to be a hard sell.
This is the case at my company. We thought about dropping outlook and ms office for open source options and the users (note, I am not IT, I'm a user too) were INCREDIBLY resistant to the idea. One guy (a project manager) kept calling OpenOffice.org OpenAwful.org. Different pissed people off. Its the same reason you hear the unwashed computer-illiterare masses complain about macs. They hate them because they are different and they don't know how to use them.
Not a justification, no. But it is convenient to have it already there.
I am an idiot. Didn't get the post. Fool. Wish you could delete posts. Now I do see the irony.
They do outsource pr, like everyone else. Its pretty standard practice.
No. The pdf format is a published standard. No reverse engineering is required to make a translator, like word.